The City: History, Literature, Art cancelled

The audience will be Community House students with an upper limit of twelve, and will be held on Wednesdays from 6:00-9:00. The course will be offered in the Master's Apt, 284 Ward, and a light supper will precede each class session.

The focus of the course is *American* cities, with an emphasis on Philadelphia. The content of this course is consistent with the House theme this year of "City and Community," and will expose students to a study of the City as a rich, cultural resource, even as they grapple with understanding the City's problems and how they can make a contribution to solve these problems through civic participation, community service, and volunteerism. Although not about community service, this course will provide valuable and critically needed balance to the service agenda.

The course will combine some primary and secondary readings in the history of cities/Philadelphia; 19th and 20thc literary texts that have the city as subject/theme (work by Whitman, Dreiser, Wharton, James, Eliot, Bellow, Wright for a few examples); paintings and photographs (e.g., work by the Ashcan group, Riis and Paul Strand, Edward Hopper, Red Grooms); and walking tours of Philadelphia. Requirements will likely include several short papers; an edited journal; and an oral report.

As an English 016 course, it will satisfy degree requirements in each of the four undergraduate schools in different ways. Here is a quick run down: